Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 08:45:09AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> When used as a build slave, the Novena is prone to overheating. The
>> best solution is to add a fan. In the meantime, I've disabled 2 out of
>> the 4 cores on hydra-slave1 using the following commands:
>
> Which temperature is overheating?
I don't remember. All I remember is that my Novena used to crash a lot
while doing builds, and I found a Novena forum where several users
reported overheating and the developers acknowledged the problem. Some
users have added a fan, and there are discussions on how best to do it.
There was talk of adding automatic CPU throttling to the kernel. I
think that work may already be done on one of the novena kernel branches
(maybe 3.19?).
I found that with only two cores enabled, the Novena became stable as a
build slave.
> It is a pity to sacrifice half of the build power!
Indeed, that's why I said that the best solution is to add a fan.
> Why not use three cores?
I tried reducing to three cores, but found that it still overheated
while doing parallel builds.
Mark
